Enthusiastic, absorbed, as if gazing into the infinity of Eternity is the concerto by Johannes Brahms for orchestra, violin and cello. This is the last symphonic work that came from the pen of the great composer – a work that will take an important place in the program of the concert, which will open the 64th edition of the International Festival "March Music Days".

The solo instruments in this concert share equality - just as the two world-renowned instrumentalists - Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin, and Andrei Ionitsa, cello - long-awaited guests of the Festival - are equal in their mastery. Although on most occasions in this Concerto the composer allows the cello to 'speak' first, leaving the violin to respond, and although one is left with the feeling that the Concerto is therefore dominated by the dark timbre, the inimitable arbiter of the equality of this conversation will be the conductor Nayden Todorov. The Maestro has chosen to place Antonin Dvořák's Ninth Symphony, a work he interprets brilliantly, at the centre of the concert programme. And his joy and satisfaction to stand before the respectable ensemble of the Ruse Philharmonic once again (the Ruse Opera Orchestra) will shine through with the solemn chords of this symphony, which sings of its composer's wonder at the New World of hard-to-reach America. Brahms was a friend and patron of Dvořák and it was he who turned out to be the first editor of the first edition of the Ninth Symphony. Dvořák would then admit of his work:  "I would never have written this piece if I hadn't seen America". Through the power of music, the musicians of Ruse and the audience, under the magic baton of conductor Nayden Todorov, will fall into the heart of distant America.